Adolf Hitler’s ethics

Sep 26, 2008 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon

Countless number of persons in this world since civilization began have argued about what is morally right and morally wrong.

Since those times almost two thousand years ago that probably began with Socrates, right up to this moment in time, morality’s definition is still proving elusive. Whether fortunately or unfortunately, Mr. Errol Arthur in the United States has discovered what is right and what is wrong in terms of the ethical foundation of human conduct and applied his format to me.

I wrote a long essay on morality on November 5, 2005 in this paper in response to Stella Ramsaroop’s demand that Sheila Holder, Khemraj Ramjattan and Raphael Trotman resign from their respective political parties from which they acquired parliamentarian status after they chose to break with those parties.

Using the arguments of the philosophies of Jeremy Betham, David Hume, Immanuel Kant and Pope John Paul, I pointed out to Stella that quantifying what is morally wrong may be a Sisyphean task. That entire essay could have been reproduced to answer Errol Arthur’s letter on me in Tuesday’s Chronicle.

I will avoid that route and respond with specific examples, hoping to prove to Mr. Arthur that he too may be more at fault in abandoning moral requirements than me, as he claims.

One brief example before we get into the debate. One of the most perplexing dimensions of the Nazi regime is that its murderous members listened to the best of the classical composers, attended the opera, lectured to their children about good behaviour while at the same time enjoyed killing other human beings in the most uncivilized manner. Did Adolf Hitler observe the ethical rules of life?

Something has to be wrong with any Guyanese citizen who can see a newspaper columnist as a liar and unprofessional media practitioner, find time to write about that commentator and remain totally silent about the power wielders in society whose policies divide a nation, bring untold misery to others, and threaten to ruin the country. Could we not say that such a person is ethically indecent and morally repugnant?

We now come to Mr. Arthur himself. I don’t know Mr. Arthur. I accept that he is a real person. I will not apologize for saying he was not a real person because I did not know that.

The PPP has hundreds of supporters that cheer for it but are ashamed to do so under their real names. I thought Mr. Arthur was one of them.

Mr. Arthur makes a distinction between what is morally right and morally wrong. Fine! Could Mr. Arthur tell us about his blog colleagues?

He is a major participant in the discussion forum on the internet in the US that I was advised to look at. I will never visit that site again. No human being should write such atrocities about people’s race and about their fellow human beings.

That discussion forum is still in existence because no American citizen has pointed it out to the Justice Department of the US Government.

One thing for sure, if that forum ever makes the kind of racist remarks about the Jews that it does against African people, there will be serious legal trouble for its Web Host.

Let me ask Mr. Arthur if is he is morally comfortable sharing a relationship with the people that post on that discussion forum.

I know exactly where Errol Arthur, Harry Hergash and other fans of the PPP Government are coming from. Frederick Kissoon is their target because Frederick Kissoon writes about elected dictatorship here. Arthur does not live in Guyana so he is not aware of how Guyanese people perceive their government.

Errol Arthur, Harry Hergash, Walter Persaud, Randy Persaud, Rickey Singh, David Dabydeen and all those avid PPP supporters holding down good jobs in rich countries where there are no daily electricity disruptions are not coming back to Leslie Ramsammy’s beloved Guyana.

One can make an exception for Dabydeen and Singh. The former was candid in calling the withdrawal of ads from Stabroek stupid, while the latter says President Jagdeo uses power in the mode of the maximum leader.
Finally, there is a shameless policy of these Diaspora writers.

They use the nastiest adjectives to describe me and their semantics are insulting and personal yet they shout that I am rude to them.

Just read the very first letter Arthur wrote on me. I don’t cry. I know it comes with the territory. And I know where they are coming from.

The difference between us is that I hear the words of Guyanese everyday, from all classes, about what I write. We all live in Guyana and we share the burden of a country whose future appears uncertain.

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